Videos

NOTE: This page includes only video documentaries on the 9/11/01 attack.
Video footage of the World Trade Center attack can be found on the
9/11/01 WTC Attack Videos
page.

Numerous documentaries about the September 11th attack
have appeared in the eight years since the event.
The official explanation of the World Trade Center destruction
is uniformly supported by mainstream productions such as NOVA's,
whereas serious challenges to that explanation
are found in a handful of independently produced films,
mostly eclipsed by less credible efforts
in a field full of
easily-ridiculed wares promoted as 9/11 truth.
This page highlights documentaries about the World Trade Center destruction
based on several criteria,
including historic import and originality.

Because
the claim that no Boeing crashed into the Pentagon has been shown to
lack scientific merit
and has been used effectively as a smokescreen to discredit challenges
to the official account the World Trade Center's destruction,
videos promoting this claim are distinguished here
from those whose analysis is not so encumbered.

Videos Challenging the Official Account

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9/11 Analysis with David Chandler by David Chandler

9/11 Analysis is a DVD by David Chandler examining the
destruction of the North Tower and Building 7,
and NIST's Reports rubber-stamping the collapse explanation.
Put simply, Chandler shows beyond any reasonable doubt
that these buildings were felled by controlled demolition,
and that NIST officials engaged in scientific fraud to conceal this fact.
Chandler does this by focusing on just a few key pieces of evidence,
and presenting his case with such objectivity, clarity,
and transparent rationality that his conclusions are inescapable.

9/11 GUILT: The Proof is in Your Hands by Don Paul, Jim Hoffman, and Celestine Starr

In this DVD, Jim Hoffman and Don Paul offer conclusive evidence
that the Twin Towers and Building 7 were subject to controlled
demolitions, who profited from these indubitable demolitions, and why.
The DVD contains two talks and several special features:

'Proving Controlled Demolition of World Trade Center Building 7
and the Twin Towers' --Jim Hoffman

'Indicting Financiers Behind the Crimes of 9/11/01' --Don Paul

'What We Can Do'

'On the Ground: Testimony of New York Fire Department and
Emergency Medical Responders' --Jim Hoffman

'Hidden Means of Theft: The Federal Reserve System and the
Council on Foreign Relations' --Don Paul

This DVD captures the multimedia presentation given by
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth founder
and San Francisco Bay Area architect Richard Gage, AIA,
to a packed audience at the
University of Manitoba, Canada in 2007.
Gage provides clear, convincing evidence that controlled demolition
was the cause of all three WTC high-rise "collapses".

The Emerging Science Around the 9/11 World Trade Center Destruction by Kevin Ryan

On September 12, 2009, the Economics & Political Science Department
of Keene State College and the Monadnock 9/11 Truth Alliance
hosted a talk in Keene, New Hampshire by Kevin Ryan titled
“The Emerging Science Around the 9/11 World Trade Center Destruction”.
In this talk, Ryan presents the tangled web that weaves together
the companies, agencies, and personalities which may have played
a role in the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.
Also included is an interview with Niels Harrit shown on mainstream
television in Denmark.
Dr. Harrit is first author of the paper co-authored with Kevin Ryan,
'Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from
the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe'.
The accompanying slideshow can be viewed
here.

This video captures the rich multimedia presentation given
Dr. Steven Jones in Sacramento CA, on April 30th, 2009.
Jones gives a detailed yet easy-to-follow account of the discoveries
made by the team of researchers who published the paper
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, summarized here.
Jones also shows the communications from an individual ---
C. Martin Hinckley --
attempting to intimidate Jones, with career threats and bribe offers,
into recanting his findings.
Jones wonders about Hinckley's role the his subsequent forced retirment
from his long-standing professorship at Brigham Young University.

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This video captures a slide presentation by
Dr. Steven Jones
examining the fate of the three World Trade Center towers.
Jones first looks at the case of the total collapse of
WTC Building 7, noting its symmetry and rapidity,
and contrasting it with other cases of skyscraper fires
(which didn't induce collapse)
and earthquake-induced collapses of high-rise buildings
(which weren't symmetric).
Jones then looks at the Twin Towers,
showing details of their construction and noting the properties of steel.
He explains how NIST, failing to experimentally verify floor collapses,
based their report on computer models, which they refused to publish.
Jones explains the how thermite and variants of it
can be used to cut steel,
and how reports of molten metal and sulfidated steel are
consistent with the use of thermite.

The second half of the presentation covers more general issues
surrounding the 9/11/01 attack, such as fabricated evidence of
bin Laden's guilt, administration foreknowledge,
and aspects of the imperial agenda enabled by the attack.

This video is one of two titles on the disc which includes
"A New Standard for Deception" by Kevin Ryan.

This video, the subject of this
detailed review,
captures a presentation by
Kevin Ryan,
a former lab manager and scientist at Underwriters Laboratories.
Ryan explains details of the investigation by
the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
not acknowledged by the Institute,
such as its failure to experimentally verify the floor pancake theory,
forcing it to invent a new theory about the Towers' collapse.
Ryan notes commonalities in the WTC investigations by NIST and FEMA,
and the investigation of the 1995 Oklahoma City Building,
such as a high degree of overlap in the leaders
of the respective investigations.

This video is one of two titles on the disc which includes
"Scientific and Ethical Questions" by Steven Jones.

This video contains two illustrated talks by David Ray Griffin:
Part I is based on his October 3, 2004 speech in Santa Rosa, CA;
and Part II is based on his October 12, 2004 speech in Montpelier, VT.
Part I is essentially a summary of Griffin's second book on the 9/11/01 attack,
The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.
Griffin gave this talk prior to the book's publication.
Part II is about the various official accounts
of military response to the attack.

This video supplements each speech with added images and video clips
to illustrate Griffin's points.

Some of the points Griffin makes in this speech are enumerated
here.
A transcript of Griffin's speech, complete with references, is archived
here.

On September 24, 2006, KPFA Radio in Berkeley, CA sponsered
a panel discussion with guests
David Griffin,
Kevin Ryan,
Peter Pillips,
Peter Dale Scott,
and host Ray McGovern.
The historic event,
which was attended by an audience of more than 400 people,
was one of
a series of events in late 2006
that stressed reason- and science-based aproaches
to the analysis of 9/11/01.

Videos Promoting the Official Account

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Why the Towers Fell - An Exclusive Investigation into the Collapse of the World Trade Center (2002) by Garfield Kennedy and Larry Klein, directors

This video by NOVA presents
FEMA's explanation for the
total collapse of the Twin Towers.
NOVA's companion website to the video is critiqued
here.
NOVA does not consider whether controlled demolition was involved.

World Trade Center - Anatomy of the Collapse (2001) by Steve Spak Productions

This documentary uses computer graphics to explain the collapses
of the Twin Towers.
It blames a flaw in the design of the Twin Towers for their total collapse.
A simulation of the initiation of a collapse explains that the
floors held up the walls.
It shows perimeter walls bowing out
immediately following the severing of connections
between the trusses under a floor and the walls.
Like the NOVA special, this explanation is based on the
truss failure theory,
later abandoned by
NIST.

Videos Documenting the Attack and Aftermath

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WTC - The First 24 Hours (2002) by Étienne Sauret, director

This video has begins with a high-resolution close-up
of the beginning of the North Tower's destruction,
and is followed by video footage of Ground Zero taken within
the first 24 hours of the attack.
The video lacks commentary, the audio consisting only of the sounds
of the original footage.
It shows many different parts of Ground Zero, from the perspective of
firefighters and rescuers.

This video is based on the video taken on 9/11/01
by filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudet,
who were in New York City filming a documentary on the FDNY.
The Naudet brothers accompanied FDNY personnel to the World Trade Center
after the attack started,
and filmed the only known footage of the inside of the North Tower
after the first jetliner crash.

Videos Mixing Challenges to the Official Account
with Promotion of the Pentagon
"No-Boeing" Claim

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Painful Deceptions (2 hours) by Eric Hufschmid

The precursor of this 2003 video was The 9-11 Scam.
Painful Deceptions is more tightly edited, but lacks some
of the details of information in the earlier video.
Painful Deceptions has less on the destruction of the Twin Towers
than the companion book
Painful Questions
but it has persuasive 20-minute segment on Building 7.
Painful Deceptions has much more than the book
on the Pentagon attack, but the Pentagon segments feature a good deal
of sloppy or even deceptive analysis. The errors include:

It asserts that the attack plane made almost no sound,
when in fact eyewitnesses describe the roar of jet engines.

It goes into a lengthy digression about vapor trails
based on a Pentagon CCTV video frame to promote his missile theory,
without considering alternative explanations such as engine damage
from light-pole impacts.

It makes most of the
common errors
in evaluating the Pentagon attack physical evidence.

It suggests a rescue dog could find no human remains,
when no one disputes that at least 125 people in the building
were killed in the attack.

Although this video was influential at one time,
Hufschmid has since lost what credibility he once had by publicly
embracing Holocaust denial
and accusing scores of people with being part of a vast
"Zionist criminal network".